The Play Team is pleased to announce the release of Play Framework 2.8.0-M4. This is the fourth milestone release of Play 2.8.x series. Like all milestone releases, the primary goal is to get feedback, so please let us know if something isn't working or you see something that should be improved. If you are the author of a Play module, we would recommend checking out this release to see how it will affect your module.

There are many improvements and changes at this new release, and you can see them all in Github milestone.

Changelog

Some of the most relevant changes are:

Akka 2.6.0-M5: as you can see in our roadmap, support Akka 2.6 is a priority, so we are closely tracking Akka 2.6 milestone releases to discover possible integrations problems sooner than later.